A lot of people simultaneously see immigration as charity from and punishment to the western world for its sins, they don’t actually care about immigrants as people outside that https://t.co/MTKmaQJO5v
— Dhaaruni ✨✨✨ (@dhaaruni) May 16, 2025
And the funny thing is the pro-immigration and anti-immigration people largely agree on this! That is, even the pro-immigrant side sees immigrants as punishment for alleged past Western sins.
Not very healthy on either side.
Depression still on track, no matter what pauses or changes Trump is doing. Tariffs are still tanking the economy and the policy chaos and uncertainty is even worse than the tariffs themselves.
Not much has changed, except to get worse.
The age of America is ending. We’ve somehow managed to strangle ourselves with no outside assistance.
The world that’s coming will be much more dangerous and worse. The evil degrowthers will cheer, though China, India and now Europe will be ramping up emissions more than the US ever would have, so it’ll be a net loss even there. The wake of our decline will stir into motion much war, much death, and probably a nuclear exchange or two before it’s done.
I never thought it’d all wrap up like this, in a pathetic suicide. But perhaps that’s the only way it could’ve concluded.
I’ve been planning for Social Security not to exist when I retire and looks like DOGE might make that happen. Glad I started planning for that more than 20 years ago.
Poverty rate is gonna jump and elderly are gonna be dying in the streets. But we all knew it was coming. Well, the smart ones did. The rich absolutely despise Social Security and covet that money. It was only a matter of time before they stole it all.
Coworkers inappropriate question.
It’s funny how often we’re told women never do anything like this when they do it very frequently but just usually aren’t called out for it as men are. Because they are “not a threat.”
Double standards like this are another (stupid) reason a lot of people voted for Trump.
One of AOC’s major blind spots is she doesn’t understand how many blue collar workers look down on workers like waitresses. They don’t see them as brothers and sisters to stand with, but as servants who exist to get them coffee and afford them to experience being superior to… https://t.co/aDLcSps0xF
— Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30) March 20, 2025
That’s right. She doesn’t understand it because it makes no sense. But people always want to feel that they’re better than someone else, even if the average contractor or construction worker should have more solidarity with the waitress in the café than the billionaire being a clown on TV.
But everyone in America sees themselves as a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire so class solidarity isn’t much of a thing.
The world is so ridiculous now, it almost makes me long for George W. Bush.
Almost.
Recession chance is 90%. Great Recession II chance is 85%. Depression chance is now an also-depressing 80%.
Given the above 80% chance of depression, the further likelihood it’ll be Great Depression-like is 60%, Long Depression-like is 40%.
Great question https://t.co/ae5gq8WuNE
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 14, 2025
I thought the idea absurd in 2015-2016 that Trump might be a Russian agent, or least on their payroll. Now I think it’s probably substantially true.
Has a country so large ever destroyed itself so quickly? Maybe Germany in the lead-up to WWII, but even that was slower if I’ve read my history correctly.
These people have literally no idea what sort of a fight they’re in. THE WHOLE POINT IS THAT NORMAL ORDER NO LONGER EXISTS.
— Nils Gilman (@nilsgilman.bsky.social) March 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I stole this from someone else (can’t remember who), but they said, “They think they are in a Wes Anderson movie. But they’re actually in a Tarantino movie.”
And that about sums it up I think. The Dems are useless. As ever.
A lot of you don't realize how many privileges you enjoy on the back of the liberal global order and you will very much regret it when it collapses.
Although, frankly it looks like it was a lot more fragile than I thought. Maybe this was always inevitable.
— Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 (@StevenGlinert) March 9, 2025
He is right. Even all the liberals chanting “Death to America” who firmly side with Hamas terrorists will miss Pax Americana and the liberal global order that rode on its back when that stability and peace is gone.
It’s going to be a wild few decades. That said, all orders collapse eventually. All systems have built-in frailties and weaknesses. The post-WWII arrangement is no different. It lasted longer than it likely should have after the end of the Cold War.
Rarely, though, has a system imploded in such a preventable and ludicrously tragicomic manner.
History has returned, as it always does. Alas and such. But it was inevitable; human nature has not changed. And only the dead have seen the end of war, as George Santayana observed.
We needed new minds for new times. And we did not get and do not have those. So it’ll be like old times again soon.
Elon Musk buying Twitter and bending it to favor Trump isn’t rigging the election, you fuckin’ numpties.
That’s called “strategy” and the Democrats should try it sometime. Creating a favorable information environment for themselves is something Dems are uniquely terrible at, so I can understand why when another person or entity does it they see it as cheating.
But it’s how you win. So of course they won’t do that.
It has been really sad to watch the mighty United States develop mental illness and commit suicide over the last 24 years.
We’re consumed by irrational hate and poisoned by nonstop disinformation. No one can think clearly about anything.
This will not get better. These are our death throes.
— Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 (@gaughen.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Might be right, might be wrong — but we have heard this before. Read documents and commentary from the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was chaos. There were riots, the Weather Underground bombed the US Capitol building and people believed society was about to dissolve into anarchy and mass death.
But it didn’t. And that’s mostly forgotten now, even in some cases by people who lived through it.
My personal guess is that we experience a pretty bad WWIII against China, Russia and North Korea, the US pulls together and we and Europe emerge stronger with China diminished and reclusive once again.
But Trump is doing the US much damage that will not be easy to repair. I agree that it is not looking good.
I can’t believe we went and elected one of the most greedy, crooked and unqualified people of all time to the presidency.
Of course I am talking about Obama. But then we went and did the same thing with Trump.
We are not smart.